Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
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Re: Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
#2Strangely, the words "spawn" and "satan" do not appear anywhere in this document.
Re: Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
#3Strangely, the words "spawn" and "satan" do not appear anywhere in this document.
I understand the trope, but comments like this tend to push discussion in a shallow direction. Not that 'shallow' is a direction.
It would be better if you wrote substantively about some of your experiences with Lotus Notes.
Re: Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
#4"Notes is a document creation, editing, and storage system."
Strangely, at the last (and only, thankfully) place where I had to use Notes, it was not used for that purpose. Instead, it was used as an e-mail system and an inventory management tool.
Re: Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
#5"Notes is a document creation, editing, and storage system." Strangely, at the last (and only, thankfully) place where I had to use Notes, it was not used for that purpose. Instead, it was used as an e-mail system and an inventory management tool.
I actually found Notes to be an amazing tool and found it to be a great system to work with. I just wish they kept the development going with a strong user experience in mind.
I found my love of using PIM in Notes.
Re: Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
#6The timelessness of the promises made in this specification are very interesting to me. A more idealistic (and younger) version of me would love to help build an open platform that could fulfill a lot of these promises, likely just because it's fun to build platforms. No doubt it such an effort would also be doomed to relative obscurity, not unlike the other various collaboration platforms that come to mind (Microsoft Exchange as an application platform, FileMaker, and of course, Notes itself).
Re: Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
#7I wonder if anyone wrote a free or open source version of Lotus Notes? I think IBM stopped supporting it after a while. It is a shame that IBM bought out Lotus and couldn't keep the Lotus software current and up to date.
A local newspaper used Lotus Notes to serve up stories on their website, before Python Django replaced it.
Re: Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
#8Somewhat related: I came across the visicalc documentation from 1981: http://toastytech.com/manuals/VisiCalc%201.1.pdf
Page 123 of the pdf (page 3-3/3-4 ) is a massive state machine showing all of the commands and modes.
Re: Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
#9"Notes is a document creation, editing, and storage system." Strangely, at the last (and only, thankfully) place where I had to use Notes, it was not used for that purpose. Instead, it was used as an e-mail system and an inventory management tool.
I actually found Notes to be an amazing tool and found it to be a great system to work with. I just wish they kept the development going with a strong user experience in mind. I found my love of using PIM in Notes.
It seems like everybody who ever used Notes either loved it or hated it. Makes me wish I'd ever used it. Or glad I haven't?
Re: Original Spec for Lotus Notes (1984) [pdf]
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